Posted on 07/05/2011 9:54:35 AM PDT by mikelets456
Man oh man. What is happening to our society? Where are all of these people coming from all of the sudden? People parking in Handicapped spots that walk completely fine and then pull down the placard as they drive away. Ignorant people that cut in line at the deli, amusement park or shows. Parents on cell phone calls as their crazed kids run around uncontrollably. I ain't perfect, nor am I one of those people that said "when I was young..." Because I feel a lot of these teens have more "manners" than most adults and younger kids. WTH is going on? There is no shame and when you confront these people they completely act as if you were not there and ignore you! I find it amazing and it is getting worse at an alarming rate. Does anyone else notice this?
Texas jacked the fines for violations up to $500.00 and the number of tickets in Austin actually went up.
Yup. . .reference handicapped: For many years we have been preached to by the handicapped and their advocates, and bombarded by media that the handicapped can do anything and everything non-handicapped people can do. Wonderful.
But it seems they can do everything non-handicapped can do except walk from the parking lot to the store.
Accommodation, fine, but don't claim special parking privileges and then claim you are not to be treated any different than anybody else.
we have family out in Johnson County(from what I remember) Kentucky and he has a very large chunk of land he purchased with his retirement money. It’s real nice from what I’ve seen and he’s invited us out there if we need to go.
The trick is to find a car that can get us there on one tank.
The core observation is basically: Society has gone downhill and many people seem to think only of themselves and make no effort to follow accepted rules and standards.
And an overwhelming number of replies seem to follow along the lines of "How dare you criticize people who park in handicapped spots! You don't know my situation! My situation entitles me to do what I'm doing! Don't take that tone with me!"
Hmmmmmmmm.
I noticed the same thing.
In the immortal words of Jamie Hyneman (Mythbuster): "Well, THERE'S your problem!"
When I was recovering from some back problems I was the same way. I could walk about 50 feet before I started having problems, which if I used the handicapped spot, usually meant I could reach the courtesy wheelchairs that most stores have. I started using a pair of canes to walk with. They didn’t help much with the walking part, but my truck didn’t get keyed as often!
Same thing happened to me at the county fair. I was pushing my daughter around in a twin cart while carrying this two-year old, trying to find the parents. When I finally found them they were so casual, “Oh, there he is.” No thanks, naturally.
paul kersey....love it
Saw a store with 3 spaces reserved for “hybrid cars”. I parked my pickup in one :)
I have been a gate guard at a Gulf Coast resort for 5 years. In that time the intelligence level of young adults seems to have declined in a fairly smooth curve with a noticeable drop below the curve this year. Incivility has also declined and there is progressively less fighting and property destruction so the intelligence decline seems also to be accompanied by an increase in simple dullness. George Noory’s chemtrails? Or is it, perhaps, the tightening of the socialist/politocal correctness band about their brains?
I have been a gate guard at a Gulf Coast resort for 5 years. In that time the intelligence level of young adults seems to have declined in a fairly smooth curve with a noticeable drop below the curve this year. Incivility has also declined and there is progressively less fighting and property destruction so the intelligence decline seems also to be accompanied by an increase in simple dullness. George Noory’s chemtrails? Or is it, perhaps, the tightening of the socialist/political correctness band about their brains?
Whatever that may mean ...
IMO, a bog-standard Toyota Corolla is "fuel efficient".
That is exactly what I thought about posting to mikelets456. He obviously does not realize that driving with the placard hanging from the mirror is prohibited.
Both my mother who had a stroke and my husband who has had back trouble for years have handicap placards. I drive them both everywhere they have to go. Before my husband’s back surgery, people would stare at us with the judgment of mikelets456 in their eyes.
Now that my husband has had his recent back surgery and can only get around with by using a walker, they have a different look in their eyes — pity. We all travel with God’s grace. May we all be thankful and appreciate what we have.
I disagree.
Most fat people are merely lazy and the 5% that have real conditions, they are excused.
I am 30-40 pounds over weight (245 vs. 205-215 lbs.) because I eat crap (like BK for lunch today), drink beer and watch TV late and have lack of sleep.
If I planned my meals, went to bed and drank water, then worked out 5-6 days a week, I would be at my goal weight in 6 months.
It is hard to do sit-ups, it’s hard to sweat, it hurts to do push-ups or chin-ups.
It’s easier to watch TV and crunch on chips.
Fat = lazy in 95% of cases.
I disagree.
Most fat people are merely lazy and the 5% that have real conditions, they are excused.
I am 30-40 pounds over weight (245 vs. 205-215 lbs.) because I eat crap (like BK for lunch today), drink beer and watch TV late and have lack of sleep.
If I planned my meals, went to bed and drank water, then worked out 5-6 days a week, I would be at my goal weight in 6 months.
It is hard to do sit-ups, it’s hard to sweat, it hurts to do push-ups or chin-ups.
It’s easier to watch TV and crunch on chips.
Fat = lazy in 95% of cases.
You don't understand. There's a new category...the MORALLY handicapped.
That story breaks my heart. It used to be that people helped each other instinctively, like you did.
Now, with weird child molesters, tight government control, lawsuits and the general cesspool that eminates from Hollywood, people seem to care less about their fellow man than when I was a kid.
I have a 4-year old son and I could’t find him at a party across the street yesterday, he was around the back playing with Honey, their pet rabbit. I was sick inside and this wasn’t even 50 yards from my house.
I wish the 1950’s were here again.
That’s not ignorance. It’s anti-social behavior. Fatherless, spoiled people do things like that. But their ignorance of technical skills will affect them tomorrow. Enjoy the slide.
I even hear my dear mother, a unionized teacher, say that moving Social Security and cutting pensions should be causing riots, if this were Europe. I told her to look at Greece, the UK and Spain, they are rioting now...over the same things.
The paradigm has moved, many people will seek a specific shortcut to a middle-class existence (see Illegals) and people hate the idea of the slow slog to success.
The immediate gratification of TV and internet have made us less patient and more expectant than ever before.
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